Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.